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- Letters to the Editor (Alamosa Valley Courier)
I am voting for Barack Obama because I believe that we can be a better country than we have been for the last eight years. I am voting for the Democratic team because the economic and foreign policies of the Bush years have failed us. We cannot undo the past, but we must not repeat it.
- Construction innovator Iragorri, 78, was generous (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
He built hydroelectric dams in the Amazon and renovated the Navy Pier in Chicago. Closer to home, his precast cement slabs bolster H-E-B stores that dot the city.
- African American and Ethiopian Relations - Tadias Magazine
Tadias MagazineAfrican American and Ethiopian RelationsTadias Magazine, NY - 14 hours agoAlthough physically separated from their ancestral homeland and amidst the opprobrious shackles of slavery, African American poets, writers, abolitionists, ...
- South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
August Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler ...
- Beijing 2008 - Day Six Summary - 20 Aug - International Association of Athletics Foundation
Telegraph.co.ukBeijing 2008 - Day Six Summary - 20 AugInternational Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 9 hours agoWe'll dispense with the poetry, or at least try: Usain Bolt's 100m World Record was only four days old. He was relaxed and joking in the blocks for the race ...Video: Olympics '08: Bolt Wins 200, Gets Sprint Double AssociatedPressall 2,908 news articles
- Youth movement alive and well - Taunton Call
Youth movement alive and wellTaunton Call, USA - Aug 2, 2008The center will serve as a safe haven where kids can get together, listen to music, work on their writing or their poetry, and there will be mentors and ...
- My First Ramadan - Poli Gazette
Earlier this year I found myself in a somewhat confusion circumstance; after studying the Koran and reading about the lives and views of the Sufi mystics I believed the first to be the word of God, much like the Bible, whereas the second provided me ...
- Poetry needs to be read aloud, says Motion (Guardian Unlimited)
Andrew Motion shrugs off the hardships of a poet laureate's life to get people listening to poetry
- Retired scientist recalls life as boy in Brooklyn (Pleasanton Tri-Valley Herald)
Albert Rothman's childhood prompted him to write his memoir: "A Brooklyn Odyssey -- Travails and Joys of a Boy's Early Life," which portrays a young Jewish boy during the Great Depression on his journey toward adulthood.
- Miriam and Other Stories - nextbook
Miriam and Other Storiesnextbook, NY - 2 hours agoQuietly comic and smartly suspenseful, Berdichevsky's tales build to an inevitable collapse, which one story likens, with characteristic poetry, ...
- James Crumley; Inspired Generation of Crime Writers - Washington Post
Washington PostJames Crumley; Inspired Generation of Crime WritersWashington Post, United States - 13 minutes ago"You read him for his outlaw attitude, his rough poetry and his scenes, paragraphs, sentences, moments. You read him for the lawyer with 'a smile as ...
- Former Oakland Municipal Court judge Courtland 'Don' Arne dies at ... - Oakland Tribune
Former Oakland Municipal Court judge Courtland 'Don' Arne dies at ...Oakland Tribune, CA - 4 hours ago... a man in public office, to friends and family he was more than a judge. He was a renaissance man, best known as Don, who loved travel, poetry and music. ...
- Between the Gila River and Gila monster: Baxter Black performs Sept. show (Elko Daily Free Press)
ELKO - Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as “...probably the nation's most successful living poet,†is performing a rare non-Cowboy Poetry Gathering event.
- Love of poetry inspires fellowship (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
Mary Ann Campau was always an avid supporter of local poets and the UA Poetry Center. She even hosted free poetry workshops in her own home up until her death in 2005.
- The Key Palin Strategy at the Debate - OpEdNews
The Key Palin Strategy at the DebateOpEdNews, PA - 13 hours ago... Kipling's God of Fair Beginnings and skies above and beyond. And the only way for a writer to make peace with the Deity is through the language of Poetry.
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